- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | DB03-0323 |
| Description: | 50 Lire |
| Country or State: | Italy |
| Year: | 1955 |
| Currency: | Lira |
| Obverse: | Woman head with oak wreath in hair facing right. Designer and engraver signatures below. |
| Obverse Legend: | REPVBBLICA ITALIANA |
| Reverse: | Representation of the god Vulcan beating iron on an anvil. On the right the value L.50 (50 lire, where L. is abbreviation for lire) with the mint sign underneath; on the left the date. |
| Reverse Legend: | 1955, L.50, R |
| Designer: | Pietro Giampaoli |
| Engraver: | Giuseppe Romagnoli |
| Edge: | Reeded |
| Mint Mark: | R (Rome) |
| Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Composition: | Acmonital (Ac) |
| Diameter: | 24.8 mm |
| Thickness: | 1.95 mm |
| Weight: | 6.25 grams |
| Mintage: | 70,500,000 |
| Catalog Number: | KM# 95.1; Gigante: 381 |
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Vulcan (Latin: Volcānus or Vulcānus) is the god of fire including the fire of volcanoes, deserts, metalworking and the forge in ancient Roman religion and myth. He is often depicted with a blacksmith's hammer. The Vulcanalia was the annual festival held August 23 in his honor. His Greek counterpart is Hephaestus, the god of fire and smithery. In Etruscan religion, he is identified with Sethlans. Vulcan belongs to the most ancient stage of Roman religion: Varro, the ancient Roman scholar and writer, citing the Annales Maximi, records that king Titus Tatius dedicated altars to a series of deities including Vulcan. |